National Portrait Gallery loses Amy Sherald exhibition after disagreement over the display of her controversial transgender ...

In her Sandler Hudson Gallery exhibit "INSTAR," artist, environmentalist, activist and professor Pam Longobardi explores the psychological tension between humans and nature.

Amy Sherald claims the museum was planning to cut a portrait of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition.

The artist said that she made the decision after she said she learned that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty ...

Amy Sherald withdrew “American Sublime” from the National Portrait Gallery, saying the Smithsonian proposed replacing her ...

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...

Discover 11 Black women painters who are redefining contemporary art with powerful, personal, and culturally rich work.

Disability is the central theme of a new exhibition of paintings by the artist Lucy Jones, who creates brash, brightly ...

Since 2024, local artist Whitney C. Brock has painted 10 portraits of prominent Roanokers. For the next week those ultra-realistic oil paintings will be hanging in the downtown gallery Art on 1st ...

It’s a painting of a mangled bloody figure, and she had said to Pollock words to the effect of, I’m painting this disturbing figure and it’s a new direction for me – probably meaning that it was the ...

The painting in question is a white canvas featuring abstract lines in off-white shades; depending on which friend you ask, it’s either a masterpiece by a modern genius or just a white rectangle.

Artists who accept commissions to paint portraits, no matter how esteemed they are in the realm of portraiture (or in fine art generally), learn to put their egos aside.